Word: scratching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trick to accumulating the pins, according to the players, depends on one's ability to out-manoeuver the other traders with convincing sales pitches. Of course, to start from scratch, many must find free handouts from promotions or work on some of the nicer TV stations...
...scratch that record...
...need special parts, they'll order them. Ever wonder about that? As it turns out, our friendly electronics store is little more than a supply front for a consortium of paramilitary organizations. Just thought you should know. 12:30 on the ultraprecise Tag Heuer diving watch with scratch-resistant sapphire crystal and unidirectional bezel. Time to call Mark. After informing him per FCC regulation that I was recording our conversation, I began the interview...
What exists in Eastern Europe -- mostly antiquated factories, worthless currency and a socialist hangover -- will have to be replaced. What does not exist -- a commercial banking system, marketing networks, cost accounting -- will have to be created from scratch. The biggest hope for the future of the old socialist world is its very well-educated work force and a high level of science and technology...
Diverse though these troubles are, they have some common denominators. The former Soviet republics and satellites that are trying to build capitalist democracies must do so from scratch, with little or no experience in either capitalism or democracy. They are getting precious little help from their cold-war adversaries, who sometimes seem to enforce a double standard. Western governments may, for example, demand that to qualify for aid an ex-communist country reduce its agricultural subsidies to a level well below the largesse that the West showers on its farmers. Worse, in order to keep their countries operating, democratic leaders...